Best Places to See in Sydney (videos)

Sydney is the cleanest and Greenest City I have ever been after traveling to more than 10 countries.  Cleanliness is not just around the city but it is absolutely everywhere.

Sydney is surrounded by peaceful suburbs with amazing beaches, beautiful and safe to explore mountains and parks with a dedicated track for the walker, biker and 4WD adventurer.

Manly

One of the best ways to get to manly is via ferry ride with stunning scenery along the way coming from Sydney Circular Quay.

Watson Bay

The amazing ferry ride is the best way to get to Watson Bay coming from Sydney Circular, a bus ride is also an option that will go through Bondi Beach all the way to Watson Bay.

Mosman Bay

Mosman Bay is another short ferry ride from Sydney Circular Quay.

Blue Mountain

Train from Sydney Central Station is the cheaper way to get to Katoomba for amazing Blue Mountain trip

Bondi Beach

From Sydney CBD take a train ride to Bondi Junction then take a bus ride to Bondi beach. You can also take a bus direct from Sydney CBD all the way to Bondi Junction.

Cronulla Beach

A train or bus ride will bring you to this beautiful suburbs with the vibe of Manly having many shops and restaurants walkable to the beach.

Coogee to Bondi Beach Long Walking Trail

We did walk this trail and took us around four hours of relax walking along the coastline, the scenery is amazing.

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Together with the Sydney Opera House, Harbor Bridge is another stunning structure situated within the Circular Quay and The Rocks area. 

Sydney Darling Harbour 

Darling Harbor is a few minutes' walks from the Sydney CBD's Town Hall Train Station. This is where big museums, hotels, shopping malls, and convention centers are located.

Surry Hills

This is located just on the other side of Central Station and the popular Oxford Street at Darlinghurst.

Parramatta

Parramatta is almost the second Central Business District of Sydney having many establishments in the center. 

Sydney China Town

Sydney China Town is located in Haymarket which is a few minutes walk from Central Station through the Sydney's main Road called George Street.

Potts Point

Potts Point is a classy suburb of Sydney located next to the popular Kings Cross and the beautiful Elizabeth Bay.

Royal National Park

This place is so huge that you can have access by coming from Cronulla and you can also take the train going to the Illawarra.

Newtown Sydney 

A short ride from Sydney CBD will bring you to this beautiful old looking town.

Maroubra

A short bus ride coming from Sydney CBD.

Kiama

This is an hour or two train ride coming from Sydney CBD.  This place is known for its blow hole.

Palm Beach

Palm Beach is an hour bus ride coming from Sydney CBD Wynyard Station.  Palm Beach is  the filming location of the popular Australian TV Show called "home and away"

Morisette

Morisette is popular having friendly kangaroos in the wild. The place is a two-hour train ride coming from Sydney CBD

La Perouse

Is a short bus ride coming from Sydney CBD, The place is popular with its scuba diving site.

Those places are just a few of the reasons why Sydney is the best city in Australia.

From Dubai to Australia for Work

Travel comes to an end. Welcome to Australia, start a new life here.

I left the Philippines on Feb 2008 to go to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to work as a cook. I left Dubai in October 2015 to travel around Europe and Southeast Asia.  Feb 2016 I arrived in Sydney without enough money to support the new life. But I survived.

Bad Accommodation in Australia 

When I arrived in Sydney I first stay in a $25/night backpacker guesthouse with 12 bed in the room.  I stay for 3 nights and then moved to apartment renting a shared room with four people paying $125/week. Note that i borrowed money from a Filipina lady from my sponsoring company.

Ending the Southeast Asian Travel

This is my second time in Kuala Lumpur and lasts before flying to Sydney. During these days I am already on tight budgeting because I am already running out of money. This is already the 5th month of our travel since we left Dubai and travel to Europe and Southeast Asia.

I and my buddy stayed in a not nice hotel in the area of Chinatown,  feeling the dirty floor and walls, a hot room without air-conditioned.

In this period I received my visa approval in Australia. I was very happy because I and my buddy are waiting for this for almost 5 months. I plan my flight to Sydney, bought Air Asia's cheapest ticket and it was good.  My buddy went to Singapore and stayed with his Long Distance Relationship girlfriend while waiting for his Australian Visa. Around 10 days of my stay in Sydney my buddy's visa arrived.

I and my buddy are now both here in Australia and note that his girlfriend followed a year after as a girlfriend de facto visa approved in 2017.

Cheapest Flight Vietnam to Malaysia.

Coming from Vietnam we arrived in Penang Malaysia via the very first commercial flight of Air Asia Ho Chi Minh City To Penang Airport. It is good to know and to experience a fire truck throwing a massive amount of water to the airplane as Firs Flight Welcome procedure. All the passengers of that flight got a welcome gift from the airlines which basically are tourism flyers and little souvenirs. We got this flight as little as 25$ one way per person.

We stayed in Georgetown, Georgetown is a preserved quiet community, walking around you'll notice the houses and apartment are the same pattern as old houses in Singapore, Sydney and I think like other city occupied by the Brtish.

The Murals for me are the most attractive thing to see in Georgetown, every tourist that comes there takes a creative photo of themself with the murals.

The same as other parts of Singapore and Malaysia, Penang is also a very diverse community where locals are Indians, Malays, and Chinese looking people.

Penang Hill is another interesting place to visit in Penang. It is a mountainous park with an exciting train ride showcasing the Penang History and the view of Penang.  Looking at Penang Hill in the picture will make you think it is somewhere in Europe like those trains in Switzerland.

Filipino Travel Vietnam

I and my buddy arrive in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam via bus coming from Cambodia.  Getting into the immigration is easy as the conductor of the Bus collected all the passenger's passport for Vietnam's immigration check-in.

As we get closer to the city the first thing we notice is the volume of scooters/motorcycles on the road, aside from the bus where we are in, there are no other vehicles. If Amsterdam has the most bikes then Vietnam has the most Scooters.

I got a nice first impression of Ho Chi Minh City as it clean with a lot of parks within the city. Noticeably that this city is already like Bangkok with so many white tourists. Expect a lot of travel agency, food shop, bars and nightclub. I didn't notice any striptease show club.

The shopping area of Ho Chi Minh City is maybe smaller than those in the Philippines and Thailand but they also have those signature expensive international brands.

English is not a problem in the commercial/touristy area because most of the people speak English, but getting into the other places is a bit of problem to communicate.

In the parks, you'll notice young people, group of teenagers chatting with foreigners, and then one of my Vietnamese friends mention that that is their way of learning English.

Fast food chain like McDonald, KFC is not big in Vietnam, there are some but not like Philippines where Mac Donalds, KFC, Jollibee are in every corner. Oh! there are Jollibee in Vietnam.

Vietnamese Coffee, Bahn Mi, Pho are some of the original Vietnamese food and drinks that you should try when you visit Vietnam.

As a Filipino, we are allowed to stay in Vietnam for up to 21 days visa free, we consume those days staying in different hotels, the cheapest good hotel room that we can afford. We re using hotels.com to book a hotel because it charges exactly as it is, no need to pay extra when you arrive at the hotel.

Filipino Drama TV program was big in Vietnam at that time. They dubbed the audio to Vietnamese.